DV Cleared Contracts in Bristol

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +40
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DV Cleared 48 90 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 6.87% 9.62% 5.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.38% 22.84% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 40 43
10th Percentile £425 £375 £513
25th Percentile £459 £488 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% -3.54% +8.35%
75th Percentile £718 £688 £695
90th Percentile £775 £775 £719
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 10
10th Percentile £45.31 - £69.00
25th Percentile £66.78 £60.75 £70.31
Median hourly rate £79.35 £74.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £80.74 £76.88 £98.44
90th Percentile £82.07 £85.00 £101.38
South West median hourly rate £79.35 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +7.23% -5.13% +4.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bristol

DV Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Bristol.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 293 394 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 41.92% 42.09% 40.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 188 276
10th Percentile £213 £336 £336
25th Percentile £355 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £591
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -11.21% +12.62%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £676
90th Percentile £716 £750 £769
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 104 57
10th Percentile £18.15 £52.38 £33.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £64.69 £55.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £68.56 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £79.61 £80.00 £90.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £64.15
% change year-on-year -64.07% +9.13% +6.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DV Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DV Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared in Bristol over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DV Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing DV Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared in Bristol over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.58%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) PaaS
1 8 (16.67%) SaaS
2 7 (14.58%) AWS
3 4 (8.33%) Azure
4 3 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) IaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.08%) OCI
5 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.08%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) PBX
1 7 (14.58%) VoIP
2 3 (6.25%) BGP
2 3 (6.25%) Firewall
2 3 (6.25%) OSPF
2 3 (6.25%) WAN
3 2 (4.17%) 4G
3 2 (4.17%) 5G
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (4.17%) EIGRP
3 2 (4.17%) HSRP
3 2 (4.17%) LAN
3 2 (4.17%) VPN
3 2 (4.17%) VRRP
3 2 (4.17%) WLAN
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.08%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.08%) SAN
4 1 (2.08%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.58%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.33%) Military
5 2 (4.17%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (4.17%) Police
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Architect
2 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Network Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Project Planner
4 3 (6.25%) Consultant
4 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (6.25%) Senior
4 3 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.08%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.08%) Desktop Support
6 1 (2.08%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.08%) Support Analyst
6 1 (2.08%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.08%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.08%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.17%) Kafka
3 2 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Blackberry
1 6 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (6.25%) Replication
3 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) IoT
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) PKI
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Windows
2 7 (14.58%) Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) Migration
2 9 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (14.58%) Commercial Awareness
4 7 (14.58%) DevOps
4 7 (14.58%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (14.58%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (14.58%) Service Design
4 7 (14.58%) Thought Leadership
5 6 (12.50%) Agile
5 6 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
5 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
5 6 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 6 (12.50%) Validation
6 5 (10.42%) High Availability
6 5 (10.42%) ITIL
6 5 (10.42%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.42%) Python
2 2 (4.17%) Bash
2 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) CCNP
3 7 (14.58%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (8.33%) Degree
6 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.08%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.08%) CCNA
7 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
2 2 (4.17%) PMO
3 1 (2.08%) PMBOK
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.42%) Docker
3 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.08%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 9 (18.75%) Terraform
2 6 (12.50%) Ansible
2 6 (12.50%) Grafana
2 6 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.33%) Kibana
3 4 (8.33%) logstash
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Cisco
1 10 (20.83%) VMware
2 8 (16.67%) Juniper
3 7 (14.58%) Ericsson
3 7 (14.58%) F5
3 7 (14.58%) Nokia
3 7 (14.58%) Palo Alto
4 6 (12.50%) Avaya
4 6 (12.50%) Ribbon
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.08%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle